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On 7/27/2018 at 11:52 AM, Hermit said:

An excellent rebuttal to the joker's "All it takes is one bad day" theory

The single event or epiphany shaping an entire life is convenient short-hand for rationalizing character development because it is simple, quick, and easy to understand.  And while there are anecdotal cases of this phenomenon, most people are not defined by a single day.  Kudos to Mr. Burlew for not using a cliched literary crutch.

 

To be fair, in some media (say a 2 hour movie), you don't have time for more nuanced character development, so this is a convenient trope, but it seems to have become the norm rather than the exception unfortunately.  I am guilty of it myself when writing up brief character backgrounds for NPCs because that is all I have time for, but sadly that means more two-dimensional characters. 

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